Fighting climate change with community action

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A worker at Fondes Amandes demonstrates the building of fire traces. (Photo via Desmond Brown/IPS)
A worker at Fondes Amandes demonstrates the building of fire traces. (Photo via Desmond Brown/IPS)

Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St. Ann’s valley in the Northern Range, the community of Fondes Amandes has come together since 1982 to respond to climate change.

For several years, bush fires reduced their forested surroundings to burned grass and charred tree stumps.

Locals have also witnessed increased rainfall in the area, in which the rainy season has encroached on the dry.

Read more at: Inter Press Service

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